Doing “Work Necessary To Win”: Lambda Legal lawyer led fight for gay marriage in Iowa

Rachel M. Zahorsky, Doing "work necessary to win": Lambda Legal lawyer led fight for gay marriage in Iowa, 95 ABA Journal No. 7, 36 (July 2009):

After a seven-year campaign led by [Lambda Legal] attorney Camilla] Taylor, the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, unanimously holding that denial of marriage licenses based on sexual orientation violates the liberty and equal protection clauses in the state’s constitution ... “We try to be thoughtful and strategic on where we bring lawsuits; we don’t want to make bad law,” Taylor says, ticking off disappointing court losses in the states of Maryland, New York and Wash­ington. “We try to bring lawsuits where we can do the work necessary to win.”